For years, this was the most common interchange in #rubyonrails:
- I can't get rubygems to work.
- You've used a Linux package manager to install Ruby haven't you? Don't, it's broken. Uninstall it and re-install from source.
Then follows a discussion about how the person with the problem doesn't want to do that, and the other people telling him fine, suit yourself.
The person with the problem continues to try to solve this problem some other way, but in the end either follows the previous recommendation, or stops messing with Ruby altogether.
Nowadays, Linux package managers offers the option of installing the "full" Ruby distribution, which is great, but I wonder why anyone would ever want to install the partial broken one. I don't even know if the "full" one works. :-/
- I can't get rubygems to work.
- You've used a Linux package manager to install Ruby haven't you? Don't, it's broken. Uninstall it and re-install from source.
Then follows a discussion about how the person with the problem doesn't want to do that, and the other people telling him fine, suit yourself.
The person with the problem continues to try to solve this problem some other way, but in the end either follows the previous recommendation, or stops messing with Ruby altogether.
Nowadays, Linux package managers offers the option of installing the "full" Ruby distribution, which is great, but I wonder why anyone would ever want to install the partial broken one. I don't even know if the "full" one works. :-/